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TWINE- No. 436,26L. Patented Sept. 9, 1890.

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STATES GEORGE L. RICE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO WVILLIAM DEERING- & COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 436,26}, dated Septeinber 9, 1890.

' Application filed January 3, 1890.

-lapse, and twisting the tube thus formed so as to give flexibility to the twine so produced.

I am aware that twine has heretofore been made by forming a single band of paper into a tube and collapsing the same; but I find that where sufficient Wid th in a single band of paper is used in order to get the necessary strength the maximum tensile strength is not attained because of slight inequalities in the strain upon different portions of the band of The paper into narrow strips, the tearing tendency upon the said edges when 'twisted is less. I form the strips jointly into a tube and then twist the same, collapsing the walls and then closing them inward.

Figure 1 showsthe means by which I fornr the two strips of paper into a tube, one strip inclosing the other wholly or in part. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the two parts of the paper as if out on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, slightlyenlarged,however. l ig.3isdesigned to show the two strips of paper formed into a tube and a portion of the tube twisted so as to form twine. Fig. 4 showsa section of the completed twine, and Fig. 5 is a cross-section showinga second mode of uniting the paper Serial No. 335,774. (Specimens) which the two strips of paper B and C are drawn. The tube A is made at its lesser end of such caliber as to form the paper: tube of the size required. Vith the papers 13 and C drawn through a simple conical tube like A- they will form either as shown in Fig. 2 or 5 5 Fig. From preference I provide another conical tube a. In this case I carry the strip of paper 0 through the inner conical tube a and the strip ofpaper B through. the outer conical tube A, the strips of paper passed through the tube B being thus placed around C, as shown in-Fig. 6. These conical-tubes are laced so that their points shall be directed to a throstle of any of the usual formssuch, for instance, as is shown in Fig. 6 at Y.

In order to cause the strips forming the tube to adhere, I apply a sizing of starch or weak glue to one or both of the contiguous surfaces. The size may be applied by means of any suitable character-such, for example, as rolls,

E, running in contact with thestrips and mounted in vessels F containing the size.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A twine consisting of a collapsed and twisted tube of paper, the tube composed of a plurality of strips, substantially as described and shown. v

GEORGE L. RICE. Witnesses:

ARTHUR J OHNSON, A. L. UPTON. 

